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<div>Hi:<br>
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<div>Just for the record, a few small comments (I know there are
others here on the list who know far more about this topic, both
Moellendorff and Seredin-Sabatin).</div>
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<div>Moellendorff's full and correct name was: Paul Georg von
Moellendorff (1848-1901) -- with two at the end -- all good Germans
have family names with at least two double consonants :)</div>
<div>It is also correct that "oe" is an alternative for an
o-umlaut. But in case of Moellendorff, and most native German Asia
specialist got that 'wrong' as well, this family, throughout the 19th
century, always spelled their family name as "von Moellendorff"
(thus the 1930 book title, with "oe" and not "ö,"
and the Prussian diplomatic documents of the time indicate the same,
according to Prof. Ingeborg Göthel who worked with them in the
1980s). [Then again, how family names are written in Europe is a very
fluid and constantly changing thing.] Also, Rosalie von Moellendorff,
the author of his biography -- that was his wife, not his
daughter.</div>
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<div>The biography's correct title is:<u> P.G. von Moellendorff: Ein
Lebensbild</u> (Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1930)</div>
<div>Original cover:
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL20421284M/P.G._von_Moellendorff</div>
<div>There are several books and conference volumes about him, also in
Korean, and plenty of articles and some books in German (about his
role in Korea), e.g. by Walter Leifer (1988) or Eun-Jeung Lee (2008).
Professor Yur-bok Lee also published a scholarly biography in English
(<u>West Goes East</u>, 1988), a book that is widely available.</div>
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<div>Kirk Larsen wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>If memory serves, the "von" was
certainly claimed by Moellendorf, but perhaps undeservedly (if one
adheres to prevailing standards of aristocracy of the
day).</blockquote>
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<div>No, that is certainly not so, Kirk. (You must mix that up with
me.)</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Frank Hoffmann</div>
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